Top 100 I Am Atheist Quotes
#1. I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.
Mark Haddon
#2. I am an atheist ... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense.
Andy Rooney
#3. I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
Brian Eno
#5. I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.
Albert Einstein
#6. The more I read arguments for atheism, the more I am convinced it takes a very strong faith to be an atheist. And atheism seems to me the least reasonable of all faiths.
Corrado Ghinamo
#7. I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist when considering Zeus, Apollo, Amon Ra, Mithras, Baal, Thor, Wotan, the Golden Calf and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I just go one god further.
Richard Dawkins
#8. I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am more content with questions than answers.
Roger Ebert
#9. I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist.
Ray Comfort
#10. I brought this case because I am an atheist and this offends me, and I have the right to bring up my daughter without God being imposed into her life by her schoolteachers.
Michael Newdow
#11. I am an atheist. I was born a Catholic, but after I had traveled to Northern Ireland with some Catholic friends, and we had a horrible experience with the English Protestant police, I lost all taste for formal religion.
Guy Laliberte
#13. I am, perhaps, too intellectual, too modern, for my own comfort! How lovely it would be to sink into the warm comfort of established religion.
Lisa Tuttle
#14. I am a person of faith. I'm certainly not an atheist or an agnostic and I see some divine force somewhere.
John E. Jones III
#15. Perhaps I am even envious of Stendhal? He robbed me of the best atheist joke which precisely I could have made: 'God's only excuse is that he does not exist' ... I myself have said somewhere: what hitherto been the greatest objection to existence? God ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
#16. Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before it can be defined by any conception of it. That being is man ...
Jean-Paul Sartre
#17. I am an atheist. I do not believe in prayers, I believe in work. And my work is that of an author. My pen is my weapon.
Taslima Nasrin
#18. Nobody believes in God like an atheist: "There is no God, and I am His prophet.
Alan W. Watts
#19. I'm not saying that I think atheists are better than other people. God, no. What I am saying is I do feel that this an integral part of who I am. And it's not something that I could comfortably think of not sharing with the person I loved most in the world.
Susan Jacoby
#20. Why am I an atheist? The short answer is that I cannot accept any of the alternatives. I simply don't find them believable.
Barbara Smoker
#21. I'm often asked - and occasionally in an accusatory way - 'Are you atheist?' And it's like, 'You know, the only 'ist' I am is a scientist, all right?' I don't associate with movements. I'm not an 'ism.' I just - I think for myself.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#22. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.
Isaac Asimov
#24. God knows, I'm not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
Robert Burns
#25. It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
Taslima Nasrin
#26. I am an atheist but I promise whenever there is complete freedom of religion I would worship you as my private and individual God.
M.F. Moonzajer
#27. I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
Edward Abbey
#28. I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.
Katharine Hepburn
#29. I am an atheist, but as far as blowing up the world in a nuclear war goes, I tell them not to worry.
Fred Hoyle
#30. Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist.
Mahatma Gandhi
#31. What I am is a proud humanist. Atheism says what I don't accept, humanism says what I do. - Nathan Phelps
Nathan Phelps
#32. I don't know about you, but I am planning to scream and run.
Benjamin
#33. Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?
John Fante
#34. I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.
Steve Wozniak
#35. I am what you call a non-believer. I don't even want to say I'm an atheist because frankly I don't want to join their club either. But the point is, I am a fallen catholic, I'm not religious, and that's all well and good.
Kathy Griffin
#36. I am an atheist, I have no religious beliefs. And obviously I don't believe in spirituality of some kind.
Javed Akhtar
#37. I am not an atheist; I believe in God. But my religion ends there. I have my own personal belief system that is so strong it allows me to do what I do. I don't have to worry about going to Hell because of Slayer, you know? Everyone has a personal belief system and believes in life somehow.
Tom Araya
#38. As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
Sam Harris
#39. I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time [his grandchildren are] my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.
Newt Gingrich
#40. I'm an atheist. I wouldn't even call myself an agnostic. I am an atheist.
Nadine Gordimer
#41. I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.
Bertrand Russell
#42. I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.
Ayn Rand
#43. I am an atheist and your cunts cannot change my mind.
M.F. Moonzajer
#45. I would reply that religion had nothing to do with it. I am in fact pretty much an Atheist like my mother's father, although I kept that to myself. Why argue somebody else out of the expectation of some sort of an Afterlife?
Kurt Vonnegut
#46. I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.
Christopher Hitchens
#47. So you are Catholic? Didn't know that.
I am nothing, I said. God knows God is no friend of mine. But I envy people who believe in this crap. They don't worry about the meaning of life and things, whereas I do.
Aleksandar Hemon
#48. I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#49. I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals.
Michel Onfray
#50. You think you are too intelligent to believe in God. I am not like you.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#51. I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast when what they believe in is insulted.
Tariq Ali
#52. You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [ ... ] I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#53. Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker.
Christopher Hitchens
#54. My name is Matt Besser, and I'm an Arkansas Razorback. My father is a Jew from Little Rock, Ark., my mother was a Christian from Harrison, Ark., and somehow I'm an atheist now living in L.A. I am a Razorback living in the Razorback diaspora.
Matt Besser
#55. I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.
Joss Whedon
#56. I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.
Dan Barker
#57. I am not, however, militant in my atheism. The great English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is a militant atheist. I suppose he is interested in arguing about the existence of God. I am not. It was once quipped that there is no God and Dirac is his prophet.
Linus Pauling
#58. I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#59. As an atheist, I was predisposed to not enjoy the MAZE performance. I am happy to report the opposite
Luke Jermay
#60. I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
Albert Camus
#61. The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.
Dan Barker
#62. I never behold them [the heavens filled with stars] that I do not feel I am looking in the face of God. I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.- Abraham Lincoln
Louise Bachelder
#63. What am I supposed to say to an atheist when he sneezes, ah, when you die nothing happens.
Dane Cook
#64. I have received many touching letters and emails from people who live in the most religious parts of the country, in places like rural Texas, saying it is so good to see someone be able to say I am an atheist without shame.
Susan Jacoby
#65. How can you be a vegetarian atheist and own a gun? Well, that's who I am.
Bobcat Goldthwait
#66. My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
Ben Elton
#67. I am an atheist, a rationalist and a humanist.
Pierre Berton
#68. George was an atheist, and so am I. But how I long now for an afterlife - a world of light or of deep dazzling darkness, where he and the others we've lost reside, unscathed, forever accessible - to have tea with, to talk nonsense with, to reinvent the world with
Justin Spring
#70. Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.
C.S. Lewis
#71. There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves.
Bruno Dumont
#72. We do not want an official state church. If ninety-nine percent of the population were Catholics, I would still be opposed to it. I do not want civil power combined with religious power. I want to make it clear that I am committed as a matter of deep personal conviction to separation.
John F. Kennedy
#73. Well, I myself am a 100% atheist. And I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, which dominates our entire life, is assuming a more and more religious character.
Uri Avnery
#75. I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves.
Diego Rivera
#76. I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us.
Carl Reiner
#77. The existence or non-existence of an undefined 'god' are quite pointless.
[From 'Why I am a Secular Humanist']
Herman Bondi
#78. I am a religious by the heart, but an atheist by the mind.
M.F. Moonzajer
#79. I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.
Flannery O'Connor
#80. Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook.
Ronald Reagan
#81. I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!
Oriana Fallaci
#82. I said old Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it - all those fancy costumes and all. Sally said I was a sacrilegious atheist. I probably am. The thing Jesus really would've liked would be the guy who plays the kettle drums in the orchestra.
J.D. Salinger
#83. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.
Albert Einstein
#84. I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.
Albert Einstein
#85. I do not need your sympathy or condolence; if I am an atheist, there are reasons for that and those reasons are thoughtful, unselfish and conscious.
M.F. Moonzajer
#86. I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
Felix Dennis
#87. I was born Jewish, but I am an atheist. I dont believe in God.
David Cross
#88. People say it is impossible to get out of stupidity; well, I was born religious and here I am an atheist.
M.F. Moonzajer
#89. How do you know when you're God?" "When I pray to him I find I am talking to myself.
Peter Barnes
#90. I am against the word 'anti' because it's a little bit like 'atheist,' as compared to 'believer.' And an atheist is just as much of a religious man as the believer is.
Marcel Duchamp
#91. In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.
H.P. Lovecraft
#92. People consider Islam as the best religion of world; I wonder if best of them is that much worse, I am really proud of being an Atheist.
M.F. Moonzajer
#93. I don't actually have anything against anybody, unless their belief precludes everybody else's ... I am an atheist and an absurdist and I have been for many years. I've actually taken a huge amount of flack for that.
Joss Whedon
#94. I have several children - seven, to be exact - too many children for an atheist, certainly. Whenever my children complain about the planet to me, I say, Shut up! I just got here myself. Who do you think I am - Methuselah? You think I like the news of the day any better than you do? You're wrong.
Kurt Vonnegut
#95. I am 95% a theist and 5% an atheist; thus ultimately I am an agnostic.
Kedar Joshi
#97. I am a professed atheist, until I find myself in serious circumstances. Then I quickly fall on my knees, in my mind if not literally, and I say : 'Please God, save me from this.'
Don McCullin
#99. I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).
Kurt Vonnegut
#100. The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.
Albert Einstein
